Tuesday, March 10, 2009

HKIFF

The Hong Kong International Film Festival is almost ready to kick into gear and there's plenty of titles to satisfy even the most hardcore cinephile.

Films I'm excited to see one day or have already seen and can recommend (films already seen will be repped with a *):

Night and Fog (Ann Hui) - A companion piece to last year's The Way We Were.
Yang Yang (Cheng Yu-chieh) - Latest from the director of Do Over, a Taiwanese network narrative drama I thoroughly enjoyed. Features hot new star Sandrine Pinna (last seen in Miao Miao).
24 City (Jia Zhangke)*
Ashes of Time Redux (Wong Kar-wai)*
JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri)* - Not quite the masterpiece some are claiming but still compelling viewing and Van Damme proves he shouldn't be relegated to F-grade action-flick hell just yet.
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (Kim Jee-woon)*
Religulous (Larry Charles)*
Genova (Michael Winterbottom)
Perfect Life (Emily Tang)*
Er Dong (Yang Jin)*
Naked of Defenses (Ichii Masahide)*
Before The Flood 2 (Yan Yu)
Survival Song (Yu Guangyi)*
Mental (Soda Kazuhiro)
Confucius (Fei Mu)
35 Shots of Rhum (Claire Denis)
Four Nights With Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski)*
Achilles and the Tortoise (Kitano Takeshi)*
Of Time and The City (Terence Davies)*
Fusa (Ichikawa Kon)
Cry Me A River (Jia Zhangke)*
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
Under The Tree (Garin Nugroho)
Love Exposure (Sion Sono)*
Still Walking (Kore-eda Hirokazu)*
True Women For Sale (Herman Yau)
Crazy Racer (Ning Hao)
Jalainur (Zhao Ye)
Knitting (Yin Lichuan)
No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (Leon Dai)
Revanche (Gotz Spielmann)*
Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain)*
Birdsong (Albert Serra)*
Waiting For Sancho (Mark Peranson)*
Night of an Era (Sheng Zhimen)
Not Quite Hollywood (Mark Hartley)*
Routine Holiday (Li Hongqi)*
Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly (Edwin)*
All Around Us (Hashiguchi Ryosuke)*
Land of Scarecrows (Roh Gyeong-tae)
Agrarian Utopia (Uruphong Raksasad)*
Pharoah's Wife (Ernst Lubitsch)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)*

The festival runs from the 22nd March to the 13th April.


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